Recent Submissions

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Brazil-Africa relations date back to the trans-Atlantic slave trade of the sixteenth and nineteenth century. Despite the early onset of relations, it was only since the turn of the millennium, with the ...

English Abstract: This study seeks to uncover the prevailing food ideology of Southern Africa, by exploring South
Africa, Malawi, and Zimbabwe’s approach to food security. The explorative discussion is aided by
three ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The virtual sphere is quickly becoming one of the most resourceful platforms for obtaining information. This is due to information taking on a more dynamic role, in which it is more freely dispersed, ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Social cohesion and reconciliation have important roles to play in the development and
trajectory of conflict transformation in countries marked by past conflict. Given South Africa’s
divided past, based ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The concept of health security has been gaining prominence since the 1990s due to a renewed awareness of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. The intersection between health, states and security ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Globalization has radically changed the world we live in; it has enabled the easy movement
of people, goods and money across borders, and has facilitated improved communication. In
a sense it has made ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study applies a constructivist analysis in order to examine the extent to which the global capitalist system has gone through a process of financialisation in the post-Cold War order. Parallel to ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis examines beliefs regarding spiritual conceptions of evil among South Africans and the role that such attitudes may play in outbreaks of public and other forms of violence. In examining these ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Topics surrounding migration and the presence of foreigners in South Africa are rapidly gaining importance in light of the occurrences and developments in the country, such as the increasing number of ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research study discusses the extent to which transnational organised crime (TOC) has had an
impact on Norwegian immigration policy. There has been a public debate in Norway about the
involvement ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores the impact of primary energy on the measurement of state power and
hegemony. Through an examination of British and American hegemonies, the role of coal,
oil and petroleum on the ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Mega projects have fascinated human beings for as long as history can remember. The urge to build something bigger and better than has ever been done before has always been a driving force behind the human ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The emergence of the People‘s Republic of China (PRC) as an economic superpower has
become one of the most significant developments in world affairs in recent times. As the PRC
has grown in economic ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Rugby in South Africa has a long racial and political history. This history was a direct result
of the policy of apartheid in which a deliberate attempt was made to arrange all areas of life
along racial ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Scholars and laymen alike have in the past lamented the ambiguous and confusing nature of post-apartheid South African foreign policy, specifically with relation to humanitarian crises on the African ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Although there has been a shift from state security to human security, feminist scholars pointed out the missing gender dynamic of a human security approach. The inclusion of a gendered lens has allowed ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis seeks to advance the understanding of Zimbabwe’s current political situation and how
it has regressed towards authoritarianism. The assumption when initially embarking on this
research ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Globalization is changing the face of health concerns worldwide and states are reacting by modifying their foreign policies to keep up with the resultant challenges and opportunities. The purpose of this ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: International oil and gas companies are experiencing an increase in terrorist attacks.
After the oil and gas industry became a legitimate target for terrorist groups in the 1990s
the number of attacks ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Liberation struggles and the way liberation movements are organised can leave a lasting impact on post-liberation societies. This research project was conducted in order to research liberation movements ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Kurds, numbering somewhat 40 million, are the largest stateless nation worldwide.
As smaller minorities, they are mainly spread in Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey in the
Middle East. The Kurdish claims ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The core question this study aims to address is whether a state-sponsored ethnic middle class in a dominant party political system premised on ethnic politics, will punish the ruling party by not according ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since the rise of the modern corporation in the late 19th century, the debate on the relationship between business and society has flourished, and the negative impact of businesses became evident as the ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In a world where emerging markets are increasingly driving the world’s economic growth, and an increasing part of the world’s energy supply comes from politically unstable or undemocratic countries with ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study aims to understand the processes and factors that explain the framing of HIV and
AIDS policy in Botswana, South Africa and Swaziland. Africa remains the global epicentre of
the HIV and AIDS ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study seeks to understand the causes and nature of xenophobia in South Africa. It
investigates this through the case of De Doorns, where in November 2009 3000
Zimbabweans were chased out of their ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Despite their lack of merits and demands, Occupy Wall Street (OWS) did become a defining feature in the short aftermath of the Financial Crisis and a part of the global occupy-movements during the protest ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Rotter’s (1966) locus of control (LOC) is, fundamentally, a theory pertaining to individuals’ perceptions of personal control and their appraisal of the contingency of reinforcements in life. An individual ...